Only a few days ago, Japan experienced one of the worst earthquakes in its history. The earthquake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggered an enormous tsunami. The heart-wrenching images
Category: Hosted Mail Security
Update on Global Spam Volume
March 3, 2011
Symantec
In this blog published in January, we followed-up on the spam volume saga as the Rustock botnet returned to action on January 10. At the time, it looked like the holidays were over for spammers. Di
Spambot Tried to Play Cupid Ahead of Valentine’s Day
March 3, 2011
Symantec
Spammers often use a variety of obfuscation methods in an attempt to bypass anti-spam filters. We did some follow up analysis on a recent dating spam attack in which the spammers made use of URLs i
Fake Donations for New Zealand Earthquake Victims
March 1, 2011
Symantec
On February 22, 2011, a massive 6.3 magnitude earthquake devastated the New Zealand city of Christchurch. As per the official reports, the death toll has reached 75—a number that may yet incr